The uptake of Feature Data Object (FDO) technology is quite astounding. In addition to the FDO Data Providers developed by Autodesk, there is an increasing number developed by third party open source developers, as […]
Microsoft has announced the Release to Manufacturing of SQL Server 2008. From a geospatial perspective the most important aspect of SQL Server 2008 is spatial data types and spatial indexing. At this point, all the […]
Last week at OSCON, David Recordon gave a presentation in which he announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The Open Web Foundation appears to be modeled on the Apache Software Foundation, with the […]
According to a Vancouver Sun article , British Columbia Agriculture and Lands Minister Stan Hagen announced that GeoBC will provide access to the province’s geographic database on Google so that you can access this database […]
If you need high resolution geospatial data from the world’s leading commercial sources including high resolution imagery from Digital Globe, vector data from Navteq, DEMs from Intermap, and weather data from Weatherbug, take a look […]
I just saw this Sinking Ferry on Jason Birch’s blog. It just shows you the artifacts that can be created if you’re not too concerned with the quality of your data.
There are some pretty interesting things on the Autodesk Labs site that are worth checking out. One thing you may find pretty interesting is Freewheel , which allows you to look at 2D and 3D […]
Recently I had the opportunity to visit a very interesting company, iMapData, which is now part of ChoicePoint. These folks started out in the late 90’s doing market studies for blue chip commercial organizations. After […]